There is no need to export the page and place it elsewhere, you can simply duplicate a page to another document. Open the ESTK (ExtendScript ToolKit), Adobe’s script editor. If you don’t know how this works, see Help > JavaScript Tools Guide CC for an overview. Browsing InDesign’s object model, check whether the Page object has what you’re looking for
: select your InDesign version under ‘Browser’, in the Classes’ panel, select Page. Then in the Properties and Methods panel, browse through the list. eventually you’ll find ‘move (to, reference, binding): Page’.
This is how you use that function: assume that you want to duplicate the first page of the active document after the third page of a document named ‘immigration.indd’ (which must be open). This one-line script does that:
app.activeDocument.pages[0].duplicate (LocationOptions.AFTER, app.documents.item(‘immigration.indd’).pages[2]);
Concretely, you’d do this. You mentioned labelling your page. You can do that by placing a tiny text frame (or a rectangle, graphic line, any page item) on the page and name it on the Layers panel. Call it e.g. ’emigrate’. That makes it very easy to find. Then duplicate the page on which the frame sits to the other document. This two-line script does that:
myPage = app.activeDocument.pageItems.item(’emigrate’).parentPage;
myPage.duplicate (LocationOptions.AFTER, app.documents.item(‘immigration.indd’).pages[2]);
This is a working script. You should add some error checking, but this is all you need.
Well, it could be. Is there any special reason why you want to export to PDF and place that PDF in the target document?
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